2 St Nicholas Place, Manhattan

A single open minor violation on the exterior, but winter heat calls and surrounding air-quality issues require a closer look.

This 30-unit building at 2 St. Nicholas Place has been held by the same family-linked group since 1996. While the building's maintenance file shows almost no active hazards—just one open painting ticket from 2022—tenants still flag winter heating outages and surrounding block friction. Three things to know:

The building carries exactly one open housing-code violation. It is a minor Class A violation from August 11, 2022, to paint the metal at the cornice. That is a very light code footprint for a 1904 building with 30 apartments, reflecting three decades of stable ownership under the same group.

17 air-quality and food-establishment complaints within three blocks. Over the last year, neighbors within three blocks filed 12 indoor air-quality reports and 5 food-establishment complaints. In pre-war layouts, commercial venting, restaurant odors, or neighbor smoke can easily bleed through shared risers and floors.

17 heat and hot water complaints on file. While there are no open heat violations on file, tenants logged 17 heating complaints, including two entire-building outages reported in late April 2026. These outages suggest the heating system struggles to stay consistent through the shoulder seasons.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• Residents logged 628 residential noise complaints within three blocks last year, with banging and pounding accounting for 376 of them
• Street noise is active, with 157 loud music and party complaints within three blocks
• 186 unsanitary condition reports within three blocks, including 90 pest and 80 mold complaints
• The surrounding blocks remain highly active while the building's own active code-violation list stays minimal.

2 St Nicholas Place is a 30-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1020530111). This building is associated with Hudson Valley King LLC. Brix tracks 23 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1904, this elevator apartment building sits in Manhattan and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

Tenants have filed 241 HPD complaints about this building over the last five years, most often about paint/plaster.

What tenants have called the city about here over the last five years:

• Unsanitary Condition: 52 complaints
• Paint/plaster: 52 complaints
• Heat/hot Water: 51 complaints
• Water Leak: 25 complaints

The most recent complaint on this building was filed October 12, 2026.

Conditions cited on open violations at this address:

• § 27-2056
• § 27-2070 ADM CODE PROVIDE AN ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF GAS TO THE FIXTURES AT RANGE IN THE KITCHEN LOCATED AT APT 54, 5th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH
• § 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE WOOD FLOOR IN THE FOYER LOCATED AT APT 25, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM SOUTH
• § 27-2005 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR OR REPLACE THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE WOOD FLOOR IN THE 1st ROOM FROM NORTH AT WEST LOCATED AT APT 25, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM

The building last changed hands on March 12, 2012 for $3,900,000, according to recorded deeds.

Brix score: 0/100. View the Building Report on Brix.

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